COSMOSCARTA. 



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2321. Cosmoscarta inconspicua, Butl. (Plivmatostetha) Cist. Etit i, 



p. 267 (l;?r4); Uist. (Cosmoscarta) "YV. jE. S. 1900, p. 682; 

 Melich. (Pliymatostetha) Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 128, t. iv, f. 3 

 (190-3). 



" Head above and thorax blue-black, rugulose, testaceous 

 pubesceut ; head below, scutelluni, abdoraen, and legs testaceous; 

 thorax with lateral anterior margins and two central spots, 

 fulvous ; scutellum crossed by a black spot, vertex crossed by 

 regular series of black spots ; pectus black ; tegmina piceous, base 

 irregularly testaceous, two ixTegular transverse bauds dividiug 

 them into three equal paints, the inner one interrupted ; wings 

 slightly fuscescent." {Butler.) 



" Length 9 ; exp. tegm. 21 millim." 



Hah. Ceylon. 



We have not yet received this species. It is allied to C. tapro- 

 hanensis, from which it differs principally by the spotted pronotum, 

 and by the absence of the pale black spotted basal area to the 

 teguiina between the first fascia and base. 



c. Pronotum red or hiteous. 



2322. Cosmoscarta andamana, i>/,s-^ Tr. E. S. 1878, p. 175 ; 



IVaterh. Aid Ident. Ins. i, t. IviiL (1880-82) ; Atkins. J. A. S. B. 

 liv, p, lo (1885). 



Head (including face), pronotum, and scutellum sanguineous ; 

 sternum and abdomen above and beneath testaceous, disk of pro- 

 sternum and the legs black ; tegmina black, with the base and a 

 transverse fascia before apical area but not reaching anterior margin, 

 sanguineous ; head transversely impressed in front of eyes ; pro- 

 notum very finely and obscurely punctate, obscurely, centrally, 

 longitudinally carinate on anterior half, transversely foveate on 

 each side before anterior margin, the lateral margins refl.exed ; 



Fig. 101. — Cosmoscarta andamana, 



face somewhat broadly, longitudinally, centrally smooth between 

 the lateral transverse striations which gives a soinewbat foveate 

 or sulcate appearance ; mesonotum with two short, broad, com- 

 pressed tubercles ; rostrum reaching the intermediate coxi^ ; 

 tegmina less than two and a half times as long as broad, posterior 

 tibiae with a single spine beyond middle. 



Length excl. tegm. 9 to y| ; exp. tegm. 24 millim. 



